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It's a clever marketing strategy to position yourself with something your competitors don't have. However, I'm not sure that having less pr0ny pr0n is a way to beat off (ahem!) your competitors.
Harvard Law. Put down your coffee cup.
Indeed, "data on fire-arms ownership by constabulary area in England, "like data from the United States, show "a negative correlation," that is, "where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest."
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Doesn't Sweden have about the highest suicide rate where guns hard hard to get?
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There have been a lot of these links here on the Burg. Answer is no. It was 'no' yesterday, and will be 'no' again tomorrow.
When purchasing multiple firearms on the same day, along with the ATF 4473, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Form 5300.9 must be completed. Unlike the 4473, upon successful completion of the sale, the 5300 is required to be immediately faxed to the ATF.
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Jack salami, id on't know about Sweden but I read stats on Australia after their big gun grab. The rate of firearms suicides went down (you hear that stat misused a lot) but the rate of suicides stayed the same.
Seems suicidal folks will find another way if guns are not available. I suspect that if we magically got rid of every last gun the criminals would just use knives and bats and the murder rates would go up because the criminals could intimidate more thoroughly.
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I blame internal combustion engines and garden hoses. Automobile garage doors are also a likely culprit. The UN should probably move on these obvious hazards at once.
A 4-hr extravaganza, started at 900 PM
North Korea wrapped up the 70th birthday party for its ruling Worker's Party on Sunday with a music and dance extravaganza that included a scene of children on a butterfly-collecting trip being killed in a US bombing raid.
With titular head of state Kim Yong-Nam as guest of honour, the open-air show -- held on a floating stage on Pyongyang's Taedong river -- was a chronological tribute to the party's role in shaping the country over the past seven decades.
It ticked every milestone as it went along -- through liberation from Japanese rule and the Korean War, to the struggle of post-war reconstruction.
If the Workers' Party was the focus, the lion's share of credit went to founder leader Kim Il-Sung and his successor and son Kim Jong-Il, whose images were repeatedly projected on a giant screen to applause from the thousands of spectators gathered on the river bank.
It was a marathon event, which started at 9:00pm (1230 GMT) and took more than two hours to reach the halfway mark, at which point a substantial number of people took advantage of a fireworks display to escape the wind and cold.
But many more stayed, especially those of the generation that grew up with the patriotic songbook that provided the concert's backbone.
And many of the performances were given by the original artists, some now in their 60s or late 70s.
The songs were interspersed with dramatic dance sequences, featuring guerrilla fighters, exhaustingly keen steel workers and, at one stage, a group of primary school children who ran on stage and acted an outing in the fields to collect butterflies.
The image on the screen above then shifted from fields of flowers to a squadron of US bombers dropping their payloads on the children below.
The concert was originally scheduled for Saturday evening, as the finale to a day of anniversary celebrations centred around a massive military parade in Pyongyang's Kim il-Sung square.
But torrential rain that came close to extinguishing a torchlight parade forced the event to be postponed until Sunday.
A perfect metaphor for the Kim dynasty: even so small a thing as the 70th anniversary celebration of its founding displays a distinct lack of Heavenly Mandate.
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Yes, TW, the torrential rains were a nice touch to the celebrations.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A sessions court on Monday sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for subjecting his teenage daughter to a sexual assault.
Saeed Ahmed Khan was found guilty of raping his 17-year-old daughter at their house in Gulistan-e-Jauhar in 2012.
Additional District and Sessions Judge (east) Inam Ali Kalhoro pronounced his verdict after recording evidence of witnesses and concluding arguments from both sides.
The judge ruled that the case stood proved against the accused beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs50,000 and in case of default the convict would have to undergo an additional six-month imprisonment.
The prosecution said that the victim approached the police on May 26, 2012 stating that her father had subjected her to rape around four years ago. Thereafter, he used to sexually abuse the victim whenever he found her alone at home, it added.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against the accused under Section 376 (punishment for rape) of the Pakistain Penal Code on a complaint of the victim at the Gulistan-e-Jauhar cop shoppe.
The accused, who was out on bail, was taken into custody following the pronouncement of the verdict and remanded in prison along with a conviction warrant to serve out the sentence.
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So there musta been 4 male witnesses to testify, no? God, this Islam justice is more stultifying thsn Judge Judy.
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[DAWN] Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif said here on Monday that subsidised oil supplied to power plants was being sold in the open market and alleged that a 'powerful oil lobby' was obstructing development of alternative fuels.
Winding up a debate in the Senate on a Nepra report which pointed out deficiencies in the power sector, the minister said the subsidised oil was given to power plants on the basis of certain efficiencies, but they were selling surplus oil in the market to make money. There should be an audit to determine the actual consumption of oil, but nobody was contesting the stays obtained against such an audit, he regretted.
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[Rudaw] A campaign to end child marriage in the Kurdistan region was launched Sunday in Erbil at a conference attended by activists, international rights groups and officials from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
The "18. Not Before. Not Forced."campaign, held on the International Day of Girl Child, followed research that found that 700 million women alive today were married as children. Child marriage, is defined as a formal marriage or informal union before age 18.
The launch event, organized by Italian rights group Un Ponte Por (UPP) in conjunction with the UNHCR and the KRG, said there presently are at least 1,167 child marriages in the Kurdistan region, and 251 of these occurred when the woman was under the age of 16.
The legal age of marriage in the Kurdistan region is 18, however, women may marry at 16 if their family agrees and their health condition allows.
"Early marriage is the responsibility of all of us. Government, health officials, UN. We all need to work together with the communities, institutions and organization to spread the message," said Jaqueline Parlevliet, senior protection adviser at UNCHR.
Parlevliet said the rate of child marriage in the Kurdistan region is increasing as families suffer economically. She said the influx of nearly 2 million refugees has also contributed to an increase that has been noticeable by UNHCR workers in the displacement camps.
"We know that child marriage did not come up only with the arrival of refugees as the region has always suffered from it. But the influx of refugees has worsened the situation because of the economical shortfall and protection issues," said Chiara Moroni, UPP project manager for internally displaced people (IDPs).
Morani said the integration of the refugees with residents has helped lead to the increase in child marriage, adding an urgency to the UPP's campaign with other organizations and the KRG.
Officials at the conference said newly arrived refugees must be made aware of the legal age of marriage in the Kurdistan region and called for strict application of the law.
"Child marriage is a serious issue and children should not be forced to get married at an early age. UPP has launched the campaign "18. NOT BEFORE. NOT FORCED" with the aid of other organization to protect child rights. We will work together to improve child's life and reduce the child marriage worldwide and especially in Kurdistan," Alessia Piva, Middle East desk officer for UPP, an organization that was been working on child protection issues in the Kurdistan region since 1991.
Some weight reduction could be realized with the elimination of the dust cover. A lengthy DARPA or Army Research Laboratory (ARL) study could further validate.
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Next a mini-nuke for its delivery package, allowing integrated troops with disabilities (ITDs) to have massive fire power from their tracked wheelchairs. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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"You don’t even have to start by lasing. You can launch it, just as long as you get the laser on it before it hits its apogee and starts coming down. For a long shot like that, you could probably lase 15 seconds after launch.”
Advances across a range of fields could enable a sci-fi upgrade to the fighter jet.
The Air Force has recently become more bold in its predictions that a laser could be airborne by 2020. For instance, the Missile Defense Agency recently announced that they were revamping the Airborne Laser Program that was shuttered in 2012. The goal is to fly an airborne laser demonstrator in 2021.
"Everybody thinks you have a tendency to talk about high-powered microwaves and lasers and it's kind of science fiction," Air Combat Command leader Gen. Herbert Carlisle, the leader of Air Combat Command, said at the recent Air Force Association Air and Space Conference. "But this is a reality. I believe that we will have a directed energy capability in a pod that can be mounted on a fighter aircraft very soon."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif said here on Monday that subsidised oil supplied to power plants was being sold in the open market and alleged that a 'powerful oil lobby' was obstructing development of alternative fuels.
Advances across a range of fields could enable a sci-fi upgrade to the fighter jet.
